William Cullen Bryant Quotes
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh: "I suppose all these people know better than I. It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).
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He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.
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I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
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We will fight hostage taking like we fight terrorism.
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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.
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You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
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We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.
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We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.
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Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it.
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I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.
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All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
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True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. —Michael J. Fox
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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
